Re: [shepherd] several patches that i deem ready

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Attila,

Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:

>> - a lightweight logging infrastructure together with plenty of log
>> lines throughout the codebase, and some hints in the README on how
>> to turn log lines gray in emacs (i.e. easily ignorable).

Are you using guile-lib's logging library for it?  I've used it in
guile-hall if you want to have an example.  We should maximize its
users, refine it and aim to have it builtin Guile at some point.

>
> a quick note on the log statements: they are essentially noise when it
> comes to reading the code, hence the gray coloring i suggest in
> emacs. (although they may often serve also as "executable" comments).
>
> i'd also like to propose to relax the 80 column limit for log lines
> for the same reason that i've explained above.

I don't think an exception is deserved here; the logging library from
guile-lib for example concatenates message strings by default, which
makes it easy to brake long messages on multiple lines.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim